diestro

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Todo cayó en poder nuestro: It all fell to us, at the start, mas mi capitán, avaro, but my greedy captain, at leisure, puso mi parte en secuestro; confiscated my part: reñimos, fui yo más diestro we fought, I had more art,

Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855
Sí; salir de una pendencia, Yes, to get out of a fight, mas de un ardid diestro, no. but out of a clever trap, no.

Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855
Then presently another, evidently from his language an Andalusian, said, "Es muy diestro (he is very skilful), and can ride a horse and dart a knife full as well as if he came from my own country."

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
“Es muy diestro (he is very skilful), and can ride a horse and dart a knife full as well as if he came from my own country.”

The Bible in Spain 1712
El carrilero diestro no duda sobre dónde está su futuro.

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El carrilero diestro no duda sobre dónde está su futuro.

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Cuelga sangriento de la cama al suelo el hombro diestro del feroz tirano, que opuesto al muro de Betulia en vano, despidiÃ³ contra sÃ rayos al cielo.

Harper's Magazine 2008